Browsing by Subject "Anxiety"
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Anxiety, depression and defense mechanisms associated with treatment decisional preferences and quality of life in non-metastatic breast cancer: A 1-year prospective study
(2013)Objective: Treatment decisional preferences impact breast cancer patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and may relate to psychological variables, although many aspects of this relationship remain unknown. This ...
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Attention bias modification treatment for social anxiety : avoidance or exposure to threatening faces : the role of pre-existing attentional bias and state anxiety
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2019-05)Η παρούσα έρευνα αποτελείται από 2 πειράματα τα οποία έχουν ως σκοπό την μελέτη της αποτελεσματικότητας της παρέμβασης Μετατροπής Μεροληψιών Προσοχής (Attention Bias Modification Treatment; ABMT) σε άτομα με κοινωνικό ...
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The bold and the fearless among us: Elevated psychopathic traits and levels of anxiety and fear are associated with specific aberrant driving behaviors
(Elsevier Science, 2015)In spite of the well-documented connection between personality traits like impulsivity, sensation seeking and fearlessness with aberrant driving behaviors, scarce research exists to examine the association between risky ...
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Chronic Self-Consciousness and Its Effects on Cognitive Performance, Physiology, and Self-Reported Anxiety
(University of North Carolina Dept of Psychology, 2005)Self-focused attention, as induced in the lab, facilitates task performance in some instances and inhibits it in others. Less is know about the effects of trait self-consciousness on performance. The present study examines ...
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Cognitive and affective mechanisms of illness anxiety : How do illness-anxious individuals process health-threatening
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2018-05)Η επεξεργασία πληροφοριών απειλητικών για την υγεία παίζει σημαντικό ρόλο στο μηχανισμό ανάπτυξης και συντήρησης του άγχους υγείας/ασθένειας, το οποίο ορίζεται ως η ανησυχία για την ύπαρξη μιας σοβαρής ιατρικής πάθησης ...
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Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety
(2017)To-date no models adequately address the higher vulnerability of women to anxiety pathology, in contrast to other disorders, such as depression where ruminative thinking has been identified as accounting for women's greater ...
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Dimensionality of coping: An empirical contribution to the construct validation of the Brief-COPE with a Greek-speaking sample
(2010)The construct of coping has received increasing attention over the past years in relation to psychological and physical health, yet its dimensional and conceptual understanding is not consistent across theoretical models. ...
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Does psychological distress vary between younger and older adults in health and disease?
(2012)Objective: The effect of age on psychological distress remains controversial and it is unclear how a chronic medical illness influences this association. We aimed to compare the level of psychological distress between ...
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Effects of self-focus and evaluation anxiety on task performance
(1999)Research examining self-focus effects on task performance has indicated facilitation in some instances and inhibition in others. The present study examines the role of task type, task difficulty, method of self-focus ...
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Evidence of poor planning in children with attention deficits
(2005)This study examined the planning performance of children with attention deficits, and also investigated the possible interactions between inattention and anxiety in the performance of executive function tasks. A group of ...
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Liens entre le développement de la pleine conscience et l’amélioration de la dépression et de l’anxiété
(2015)Résumé Dernièrement, de nombreuses études se sont intéressées à la notion de pleine conscience, incluse dans la troisième vague des thérapies comportementales et cognitives. Notre objectif est de déterminer l’existence de ...
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Personality variables as predictors of early non-metastatic colorectal cancer patients' psychological distress and health-related quality of life: A one-year prospective study
(2011)Objective: We aimed to assess the course of early non-metastatic colorectal cancer patients' psychological distress and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and to identify relevant clinical and psychological predictors ...
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Predictors of Loneliness in a Sample of College Men and Women in Cyprus: The Role of Anxiety and Social Skills
(Psychology, Community & Health, 2016)Aim: This investigation examined the association between social anxiety and loneliness, and the role of associated characteristics specifically self-esteem, social skills and anxiety sensitivity, among young adults in ...
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Psychiatric manifestations, personality traits and health-related quality of life in cancer of unknown primary site
(2013)Objective Psychiatric manifestations and personality traits are known to influence cancer patients. We aimed to assess psychological distress symptoms, psychosocial factors and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in ...
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Psychosocial predictors of health outcomes in colorectal cancer: A comprehensive review
(2014)Background: A diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) and its long-term treatment may lead to significant psychological distress and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for a significant proportion of patients. ...
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Somatization is associated with physical health-related quality of life independent of anxiety and depression in cancer, glaucoma and rheumatological disorders
(2009)Purpose: To test the relative importance of anxiety, depression and somatization as correlates of physical health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in several chronic physical disorders. Methods: In a cross-sectional study ...
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Stability Subtypes of Callous–Unemotional Traits and Conduct Disorder Symptoms and Their Correlates
(Springer New York LLC, 2016)Callous–unemotional traits and conduct disorder symptoms tend to co-occur across development, with existing evidence pointing to individual differences in the co-development of these problems. The current study identified ...
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User-centric profiling on the basis of cognitive and emotional characteristics: An empirical study
(2008)In order to clarify whether extending learners' profiles in an adaptive educational system to cognitive and emotional characteristics may have a positive effect on performance, we conducted an empirical study that consists ...